The influence of increased working memory load on semantic neural systems: A high-resolution event-related brain potential study

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 177-191

  D'Arcy, Ryan C N ^a,b   Service, Elisabet ^b,c   Connolly, John F ^b   Hawco, Colin S ^d  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cortical current source estimation; ERP; Fan effect; Language; N400; Reading; Semantic processing; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; DATA ANALYSIS; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL BONE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 11844258750     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.08.007     Document Type: Article

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